Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Mission :: SitRep

What can I say. I got itchy feet and decided to go. The risk was great and the market collapse took everything and tore it asunder. I worked like a man possessed, but this was a game where I was all in. When things started heading south it was very difficult to know I would be stuck on the far side of the world. I managed to make it back to the US, but the market was already softening and the majority of my experience was now predominantly international work. So, after a brief stay back in the USofA I was headed overseas again. Instead of New Zealand, this time I was headed to Abu Dhabi.

I'm out of the Middle East, but am still working internationally. What I wrote in The Mission turned out to be very prescient. There is no going back. The only thing I can do is move forward.

With all this international experience I've quite surprisingly learned more about America. I'm going to get another RV and do another lap. I've seen many things living and working overseas, but what I've really learned more than anything else is how to see. That is perhaps the best gift anybody can ever receive.

I think RVers will appreciate what I'll be blogging about. Many of the concepts regarding conservation,  green technology, and sustainability for America's towns are the same concepts we've been using for well over forty years. This is going to be fun.